A. "Alarm business" means the business by any individual, partnership, corporation, or other entity of selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved or installed any alarm system in or on any building, structure or facility.
B. "Alarm, false," means an alarm signal, eliciting a response by police when a situation requiring a response by the police does not in fact exist, but does not include an alarm signal caused by violent conditions of nature or other extraordinary circumstances not reasonably subject to control by the alarm business operator or alarm user.
C. "Alarm system" means any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which police are expected to respond.
D. "Alarm system, burglary," means an alarm system signaling an entry or attempted entry into the area protected by the system.
E. "Alarm system, robbery," means an alarm system signaling a robbery or attempted robbery.
F. "Alarm user" means the person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, organization or state or subdivision thereof of any kind in control of any building, structure or facility wherein an alarm system is maintained.
G. "Automatic dialing device" means a device which is interconnected to a telephone line and is programmed to select a predetermined telephone number and transmit by voice message or code signal an emergency message indicating a need for emergency response.
H. "Director of Administrative Services" means the Director of Administrative Services of the City or his designated representative.
I. "Communications Bureau" is the City facility used to receive emergency and general information from the public to be dispatched to the respective police units, fire units or other emergency equipment.
J. "Coordinator" means the individual designated by the Director of Administrative Services to process permits and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
K. "Interconnect" means to connect an alarm system including an automatic dialing device to a telephone line, either directly or through a mechanical device that utilizes a telephone, for the purpose of using the telephone line to transmit a message upon the activation of the alarm system.
L. "Primary trunk line" means a telephone line serving the Bureau of Emergency Communications that is designated to receive emergency calls.
M. "Permit fees" means those fees required for the issuance of permits mandated by this section and which are set, by resolution, by the City Council who may adjust the fees annually based on data provided by the Administrative Services Department.
N. "City Manager" means the City Manager or his designated representative. (Ord. 2930 § 1, 1998; Ord. 2829 § 1 (part), 1992: Ord. 2595 § 1, 1986; Ord. 2174 § 1 (part), 1977).